Countdown Widget Generator
Generate a small, dependency-free HTML/JS snippet you can paste into any website to show a live countdown to a target date.
Embedding a live, ticking countdown into another website used to require either a paid third-party widget service or enough JavaScript knowledge to build one from scratch — neither of which fits the common, simple use case of just wanting a launch date or sale deadline to visibly count down on a landing page without much engineering effort behind it.
A countdown widget generator closes that gap by producing a ready-to-use embed — typically an iframe or a small script snippet — that anyone can paste directly into their own site's HTML, regardless of what platform or framework that site runs on. The output is meant to be genuinely portable: it doesn't assume you're using any particular website builder or content management system, just that you can paste a block of code somewhere on your page.
This version keeps the generation process to a few fields — a target date and time, plus a label describing what's counting down — and produces embeddable code you can copy directly into your own page. It's aimed at the common case of marketing countdowns (product launches, sales, event start times) where the goal is simple visible urgency, not a fully custom-styled countdown experience.
- Pick your target date and time.
- Enter a label for the countdown (e.g. "Launch").
- Press "Generate embed code."
- Copy the code block and paste it into your website's HTML.
No, it's plain vanilla JavaScript with no dependencies.
Yes, once pasted into your own site, it runs independently using its own embedded script.
The snippet outputs plain text into a div — style it with your own site's CSS by targeting #countdown-widget.